STR Will Helm His Movie First!

Kollywood star Silambarasan commonly known as ‘Simbu’ and S.T.R is known to have starred in movies such as ‘Vaalu’, ‘Vallavan’ and ‘Idhu Namma Aalu’. The actor, director and playback singer announced that he will be helming an English movie.

STR further stated that he will be completing the shoot of the movie by September. But due to his commitments with filmmaker Mani Ratnam to star in his next led him to drop the plans of his directorial. Recent news is that the actor has not dropped his plans to direct the movie. A close source was quoted as saying, STR will start shooting this film by October end for sure. It got a bit delayed because some of the major crew members were held up with other projects.

The source further added, “Santosh Sivan, who is doing the cinematography, had to complete the final schedule of AR Murugadoss's SPYder, while Gautham Menon, who is writing the dialogues of the film, had to finish the Turkey schedule of Dhuruva Natchathiram. Now that SPYder is complete and Gautham is also about to wrap up his shoot, STR's English film will be going on floors by October end”. The actor will start working for Mani Ratnam’s next in January, when he would have completed the shooting of his directorial.